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Politics : Your Thoughts Regarding France?
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To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (517)3/24/2005 4:55:08 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) of 662
 
Re: "Cultural diversity" has replaced "cultural exceptionalism" in the French-inspired, European rhetoric. But in actuality, the two terms cover the same kind of cultural protectionism. The idea that a culture can preserve its originality by barricading itself against foreign influences is an old illusion that has always produced the opposite of the desired result. Isolation breeds sterility. It is the free circulation of cultural products and talents that allows each society to perpetuate and renew itself.

So true... But then, who needs a wall between San Diego and Tijuana?!? Clue:

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